Legal Responsibilities Crossword Puzzle

QUESTIONS LIST:

• criminal law: focuses on a behavior known as a crime; deals with the wrongs against a person, property, or society
• battery: unlawful touching of another person without consent.
• legal: responsibilities that are authorized based on the law
• assault: a threat or attempt to injury
• sexual: type of abuse where there is sexual touching or act using sexual gestures, and suggesting sexual behavior, even if the patient is willing or tries to initiate it.
• civil law: focuses on the legal relationships between people and the protection of a person's rights
• tort: wrongful act that does not involve a contract.
• malpractice: interpreted as "bad practice" and is commonly called "professional negligence"
• negligence: this can be described as failure to give care that is normally expected of a person in a particular position, resulting in injury to another person.
• verbal: type of abuse involving harsh speaking, swearing, or shouting, using inappropriate words to describe a person's race or nationality, and writing threats.
• informed: what consent is permission granted voluntarily by a person who is of sound mind and who has been instructed, in terms the person can understand.
• implied: when a patient passively cooperates in a process without discussion or formal consent.
• psychological: type of abuse using threatening harm; denying rights; belittling, intimidating or ridiculing the person and threatening to reveal information about the person
• abuse: any care that results in physical harm, pain, or mental anguish
• physical: type of abuse involving hitting, forcing people against their will, restraining movement, and not providing physical care.
• defamation: when false statements cause a person to be ridiculed or damage the person's reputation.